At the 2011 IOC conferences held in Corsica and Monaco significant session times were dedicated to cardiac screening and the role of ECG screening in prevention of sudden cardiac death (SCD). I attended as deputy Medical Director for the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), and also as the Medical Director for the New South Wales Institute […]
Tag: sudden cardiac death
Authoritative resource for sudden cardiac death – finally! Guest blog by Jon Drezner
Sudden Death in Young Adults (JACC 2011, 58:12), has a wealth of information and will be an article to reference for a long time. Finally a large, systematic incidence and etiology study on sudden death in young adults with sound methodology, a defined population (military), mandatory reporting, and post-mortem protocols. The authors openly question the […]
Now the Wall Street Journal chimes in on athlete’s heart
Today a short link to the Wall Street Journal. [this link is to a free, shorter version of the paper – subscription version highlighted below]. BJSM Senior Associate Editor Jon Drezner is quoted liberally – all good stuff for sports medicine and for his University of Washington. Sports cardiology is a hot topic when it […]
Guest Blog – Sports Cardiology by Dr Jon Drezner
This week in Circulation, Dr. Eloi Marijon and colleagues from France published their findings on sports-related sudden death. This 5-year prospective observational study is an impressive achievement and also has a number of important findings. How high is an athlete’s risk of SCD? Notably, the relative risk of sports-related sudden death was 4.5 times higher […]
BJSM in US News and World Report
BJSM aims to be relevant to clinicians and to influence practice. It has been pleasing to see BJSM quoted in the New York Times, the Financial Post, and other major international news outlets. Our September issue (PDF), in partnership with the IOC continues to have an impact the world over. This link is to the […]